Disaster Recovery

Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery of an UNIX ClientDisk Delivery Disaster Recovery of an UNIXClient

To perform a Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery of a UNIX client, connect a bootable disk that contains a minimal OS installation and Data Protector Disk Agent to the crashed system. The administrator has to ensure (before the disaster) that enough data has been collected to correctly format and partition the disk.

For details on supported operating systems, refer to the HP OpenView

Storage Data Protector Software Release Notes.

Limitations

• This description does not cover the recovery of a cluster environment. Depending on the configuration of the cluster environment, additional steps and modification to the environment are necessary.

• RAID is not supported.

• Auxiliary disk should be prepared on a system of the same hardware class as the target system.

 

Preparation

 

Preparation for this disaster recovery method should be performed on

 

several levels: gathering the information for your backup specification,

 

preparing the disk, preparing your backup specification (pre-exec), and

 

executing the backup. All of these preparatory steps are necessary before

 

executing disaster recovery of the client.

Gathering

This section provides a list of items that need to be executed for each

Information

target system at backup time, in order to perform successful disaster

 

recovery. If the information is collected as part of a pre-exec command, it

 

is important to document the location of these files in the Disaster

 

Recovery plan so that the information can be found once disaster strikes.

 

Also version administration (there is a collection of the “auxiliary

 

information” per backup) has to be considered.

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